Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 September 1939 — Ask Me Another [ARTICLE]

Ask Me Another

A General Quiz

The Questions 1. What is the* country of the Lamas’? Of the llamas? 2. With what controversial question did the Missouri compromise deal? 3. What famous street in NewYork begins at a cemetery and ends at a river? . 4. What is meant by “absolute zero”? 5. With what state did Ohio come near war over a boundary question? 6. The Mississippi separates many states, but flows through only two. Which are they? 7. In how many states can matter exist? 8. What is the origin of the term boulevard for a broad avenue? 9. Does the crypt of St. Peter’s in Rome contain only the bodies of men? The Answers 1. Tibet. Peru.. 2. Slavery. 3. Wall street. 4. That point of temperature when a body has no heat. 5. Michigan: 6. Minnesota and Louisiana. 7. Three*: solid, liquid, and gaseous. 8. From the boulevards or bulwarks, the old walls of the city of Paris, which, when demolished, were replaced with streets. 9. Although the crypt of St. Peter’s in Rome is supposed to be reserved for the tombs of the popes and princes of the Roman Catholic church, it contains two women—Countess Matilda of Tuscany, who died in 1115, and Queen Christina of Sweden, who died in 1689.